| SNEE | Some words needing to be cut, as before |
| TOO | Cartoons to be cut as well (3) |
| CYPRES | Tree must be cut as a matter of legal principle |
| GLOSSARY | From "word needing explanation, language, tongue", a brief dictionary; or, an alphabetical lexicon of terms relating to a specific subject (8) |
| AMENDER | Wine tipped over on last word, needing Tippex? (7) |
| MOWN | Having been cut, as grass |
| TOOBIGFOR | Needing to be cut down to size? (3,3,3,4,5) |
| OVEREAT | Have too much attention, needing to be cut down in public |
| SCRUFF | Where hair finishes being untidy, needing to be cut |
| FURLONG | Hair needing to be cut, perhaps, though hardly extending this far! |
| UNMOWN | Like lawns needing to be cut |
| UTTER | Say some words to be complete |
| SENTENCE | Some words strung together may have to be served (8) |
| SUBJOIN | Backing public transport, Biden cut in to add some words |
| INSCRIBE | Popular writer gets to write some words directly to the reader (8) |
| CLOZETEST | Said to shut it before exam, though there's a passage of text with some words missing |
| LIBRETTO | After liberation Fisher rises to give some words (8) |
| STOA | Where Zeno spoke some words to Athenians |
| ODE | Some Words worth words |
| DROPANOTE | Pen some words (to) |
